Not. They claimed they did a clean room implementation based on Apache   
> Harmony, but it turned out at least some files weren't a clean room   
> implementation.
>

If you go ahead and actually look at the files though, it's pretty hard to 
argue that "Android contains line-by-line copies of Oracle' JDK":
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40316099/orclgoogcode

There are differences in block scoping (with or without curly brace), 
argument variable names (logic english names vs. symbols), iteration 
constructs (for, do and while), constant folding etc. Even if this points 
to reverse engineering (it does smell of decompilation) of a binary class, 
it's still not an infringement of Oracle IP. 

Does anyone know which specific 9 lines are we talking about?

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